215 Festival starts tonight

POSTED: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 1:00 PM

Philly’s on-again/off-again literary festival is on again, with four days of readings, concerts and parties in the Eraserhood section. There’s too much stuff to list here, but I’ll lay out some highlights. It all starts Thursday with an appearance by Buzz Bissinger and the debut of the Mural Arts Mobile Campfire, “a glowing, LED-powered orb meant to intimate a futuristic campfire” designed by artist Juan Dimida (7 p.m., 319 N. 11th St.). Author/journalist Jon Ronson (The Psychopath Test, Lost at Sea) is one of the most brilliant nonfiction storytellers going, so Friday’s happy hour reading at Llama Tooth should be a blast (6 p.m., 1033 Spring Garden Ave.). Sunday night belongs to one of the most brilliant fake-fiction storytellers, John Hodgman (The Areas of My Expertise), a 215 Fest staple (8 p.m., Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St.).

Through Nov. 4, free to $15, various locations, 215festival.org.

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